The Daily Hailey

Dekker and I went on a date with my mom today. We only had a few places to hit so we met just shortly before noon and took our time. The main goal of our shopping trip was to buy some flannel to make receiving blankets for baby girl. My mom has made blankets and burp pads for all of her grandkids so far and Dekker still loves his!! He doesn’t have one specific favourite necessarily, but he cuddles a blanket at night and chews the corners. Still. He has loved them well and they are comfortably worn.

So we hit up a little fabric place first off. Its considerably lesser known than the chain stores, but because of that it tends to have totally different stuff. We found so many beautiful flannels! We left with enough material for six different blankets. My mom already has some at home for  couple of blankets and all the burp pads. We are set up, and the blankets are going to be sooo pretty! The only downer was that our favourite one only had 1.2 yards left, just enough for a blanket, and if there had been more, we were hoping to make a couple crib sheets out of it too. Therefore, I will duck into every fabric store for the next little while in a desperate search to find the same stuff and buy it out!

In that first stop, Dekker was acting out pretty well. The woman cutting our fabric kept letting people overpower her and we kept getting pushed further back in the line. We waited and waited, and Dekker was starting to fuss. He would not go down and I couldn’t hold him! He started hitting, and that was it. So I left mom in the store (sorry mom!) and took Dekker outside for a talk. I stood him up in front of me and crouched down to his level. What I didn’t expect was that being as near to the street as we were terrified him. He was grabbing for me and had me in a headlock basically. He was sooo scared to have the traffic that close, even though we were still a good ways from the road. I didn’t rescue him right away though. I held onto him nice and tight but made him keep standing there while we talked. When I had said our peace, I easily got my hug and we went to sit in the car. He was silent right up until mom came back to the car. Success!

After the fabric store we headed to a nearby mall to take advantage of a sandal sale. 75% off! However, there was next to nothing in our sizes. And it wasn’t even due to pickiness, like color. No flip flops. Weird. So that was an epic fail. We were heading towards Target when I decided to quickly duck into Thyme to try and find a dress for this weekend. I tried on every dress I own last night and nothing fits my newly mondo belly. So I checked out the dresses there and actually found one I feel super pretty in, plus a pair of capri jeggings on sale for $20! That helped me feel less guilty about how expensive the dress was. But its a great dress and it’ll get a lot of wear. After buying clothes, chasing Dekker around playing with their toys, and changing his diaper, we left Thyme and went for Target. Target is new here and while I expected it to be really busy, I was actually kind of disappointed. Besides being totally picked through, it was mixed up and haphazard. I was on the hunt for muslin blankets and asked the wrong employee for help. By the end of our ten minute interaction, I knew all about her disorders, her unruly liars of children, her ex-boyfriend, and a lot of other things that I personally wouldn’t just share with a potential customer at my place of business. But hey, we all do things differently. Either way, we left empty-handed. Lame.

We grabbed a quick lunch after the mall and made our last stop at Fabricland. Weirdly enough, they had nothing even comparable to the first store! Everything was kind of ugly and overpriced. The only sale stuff was Christmas themed, which I’m not particularly going for, so it was also kind of a bust, but I think we’re all just happy that we didn’t hold back at the first place and bought all of our favorites. Those blankets are going to be sooo pretty!!

Dekker slept the whole ride home and again in his room when we got there. I rested in bed and watched some YouTube videos while researching how to make crib sheets and bumper pads. It was a solid day of events but not in a rushed, stressful way at all. It was fun and comfortable, and I’d love to do it again soon.

However, its just about 10pm. I have to go pull the diapers out and hang them up, and plan out my week a little. And then have a bath and watch How I Met Your Mother. And then sleep. Was it a full moon last night?? We all slept weird. Don’t tell me its actually tonight. I’d like to sleep all night.